Just because the word "church" appears on the outside of a building does not mean that it is the church of the Living God that Jesus died for, was raised for, and will come back for when he returns. His church was established to accomplish his mission on earth as ambassadors of a Kingdom not of this world. The mission of worshipping (Bride) our Creator and serving our neighbors (Body) can only be accomplished as the church abides in his presence (Branches) to bear witness as the living tem...

This book of poems is compiled by "Akshay Sonthalia". Different writers from around the globe have sent their entities based on global pandemic CORONA, exploring the emotions and politics of locking down, fearing & dancing with death, the choices left before us, and the emerging revelations, and many more things. They write out their dread, their fear, their boredom, their adventure, their confusion, and their contentment.The quality of these poems and the absolute originality of t...

Magic is spilling from an enchanted village into the outside world! Can librarian Chess and her talking cat prevent disaster while solving a murder?Full of charming humor and endearing characters, A Cat's Guide to Danger is the third paranormal cozy novel in the Forgotten Village Magical Mystery series. National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman describes USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond as a "master storyteller." Reviewers call her writing "enchant...

She'll stop at nothing!When kick-ass cop Rachel meets Dr. Handsome under suspicious circumstances, she nearly claps him in handcuffs. But once she discovers there's a little girl's happiness at stake, she'll stop at nothing to help him, even faking an engagement. Except, what if one of them really falls in love?Don't miss this romantic comedy with a touch of intrigue from a USA Today bestselling author whose books have sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. Unf...

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities s...

An entertaining, readable approach to becoming the best novelist you can be.Bestselling author and writing teacher Jacqueline Diamond shares her knowledge of the craft of fiction in easy-to-read, short sections filled with tips and examples.Instead of one-size-fits-all schemes, you'll find solid information on plotting, using point of view, creating memorable characters, discovering your voice and writing dialogue. It's designed to help no matter how much or how little writ...

The officer is a wild and crazy guy—but dead serious about saving a child's life—in this delightful enemies-to-lovers romcom.Detective Hale Crandall's party lifestyle annoys Connie, his beautiful, prickly next-door neighbor, until he races into a burning building to rescue the little boy she's trying to adopt. He struggles against a newfound yearning for love and daddyhood... and then someone threatens her safety.Is the stalker her ex-husband, a fellow police office who's H...

DARK LOVE BECKONS: The seduction of an angel; the lure of the lash; the touch of psychic hands... these are just a few of the alluring sins of these sirens. Look inside, but be careful they don't lure you in too far... Sins of the Sirens offers 11 new tales and rare reprints from three of horror's most provocative authors: Maria Alexander, Loren Rhoads and Mehitobel Wilson.   TABLE OF...

to be haunted by Aigner Loren Wilson is a horror poetry collection that speaks of the darkness lurking beneath, above, and all around. Focusing on her youth and moments in her life that have truly scared her, Wilson writes of home, race, beauty, loss, growth, and remembrance. Each poem a love letter to her shadows, demons, and the things that leave scars inside and out. It's a collection both personal and scary, touching and frightening.Wilson's debut horror poetry collect...

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

This book is about a word that has probably caused more disagreement and contention in the churches of Jesus Christ than has any other word in our long history. The word is predestination. This book is also about the free will of man and the question of how man can be free if God has previously determined his fate. For centuries, the usual arguments that Christian people have made about these two issues have been exclusively from one side or the other, with little consideration for the opp...

Hopeful, strange, and, at times, funny, the speculative stories in Plagued Company & Other Stories cover themes of home and the pain it can sometimes bring and the dire situations our desires can get us into. Readers can find queer relationships and queer people throughout the entire collection—both good and bad and some that exist in the in-between. Inside this debut short story collection, there's a science fiction short story that deals with the ways of love and self in the future; a fa...